Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Culled For Our Readers From the
Brightest Exchanges.

King Kalakaua bought $1,000 worth
of fireworks in San francisco the
other day.
The Burlington Free Press says
"New York has l0,147 saloons and 5S6
Prohibitionists."
According to Boston paper "The
egg remarked, This beats me- when
it saw the spoon"
Rain-in-the-face, the Sioux chief who
killed General Custer, has begun to
study his A B C's.
One other ex-President has died in
New York besides Arthur, James
Munroe, who died July 4th, 1881.
1t is not probable that Mrs. Kate
Chase will have to return to Europe
without selling her Washington prop
erty.
Two Presidents have died at the
White House-General Harrison and
General Taylor-the former in 1S41,
and the latter in 1850.
The United States have nearly three
times as many doctors as England, and
nearly four times as many as France
in proportion to the population.
z. L. Letter of Chicago made few
days ago the biggest purchase of real
estate in lots ever made in that city.
The price paid was Just short of
100000.
Richard II. Davis, who is coming to
the front as writer of stories for
children, in said to inherit his literary
talent from his mother, Rebecca Hard
ing Davis.
The late James Young Gibson, the
translator of Cervantes's dramatic and
lyrical works into English, has left be-
hind an almost complete translation of
the Spanish ballads relating to the Cid.
The smallest residence in Washing
ton, is that just built by newly mar
ried couple. Their cottage has from
tage of six feet eight inches and a
depth Of about twenty feet, and con-
tains four rooms.
A man at Buford, Ca. who cannot
walk and is terribly deformed has
made $4,000 In the past ten years by
manufacturing saddletrees and ship
Iping them to Nothern markets. He
has now opened up new enterprise,
and is shipping handles for buggy and
, wagon whips to the North in the same
immense quantities.
p AN Omahh woman nearly clicked to
\ .death on q cranberry whicl h. )acci-
Il dentally swallowed while laughing i'm
moderately over funny story her
husband was relating at dinner, Now
! there areiwretches bringing cranberries
n aome for their wives to cook, and at
| the same time securing an assortment
of funny stories to relate at the dinner
table.
The London STANDARD says: "The
Roman Forum now contains q vast
colony Of cats, which were first intro
duced at some remote period, and have
since multiplied to an enormous ex-
tent. The cats are supported at the
government expense, and every day o
} municipal officer goes to the Forum
with o huge basket of scraps to feed
the pensioners" Shade of Cicero is
this a new Catalinian conspiracy?
AT some religious ceremony at which
Archbishop Whateley was to oficiate
: in the country young curate who at
tended him grew very nervous as to
, their being late. "My good young
friend" said the Archbishop, II can
only say to you what the criminal
going to be hanged said to those
around, who were hurrying him. Let
} US take our time; they can't begin
: without u.s."
The cabin in the steamer Cotopaxi,
occupied by Sarah Bernhardt on her
d voyage to Buenos Ayres is usually as
It signed to four persons. The company
reiitted it with expensive silks and
J. tabestry, and had 1t entirely redecor-
Q ated to suit the whim of the actress.
IS The curtains and articles of furniture
!, are all inscribed with the monogram
" rs. B. 1t Is described as the most
luxuriant apartment imaginable.
n When John Jacob Astor came to
n this country he brought with him six
n flutes, which his brother in London
Q had made. He started his moderate
d little business In furs with the pro.
9 ceeds of the sale Of those instruments
l. A century ago the lockwood flute With
: six keys was considered great i'm
+ provement on anything Of the kline
!. then made, four keys In addition u
q the ten holes being the highest mum
), ber in use, and each of Mr.. Astorl
y flutes was valued at S72.
u Isss y
The following are interesting fact
y about the stars: Alpha Centaurii, thl
: leading star in the constellation of tn,
n Centaur, Is the nearest star TO the earth
n so far as known. Its distance is usual,
placed at from 2oOoOOOOOOOO 900 to 30,
/" 0OoOO00O00OO miles from the earth.
y star called Sixty-one Cygni Is classed al
! second in distance, being put at 5a7SO,
9990o0OO0 miles distance from ou
ut globe. Most Of the stars, however, ar,
ID millions Of times farther away from III
as than these. Light travels about lS6,OO
n miles in every second Of time, and ye
lis with this inconceivable rapid velocit
Is 1t would take light about twelve year
nd to traverse the space separating us from
,ik | that star Ernm thu rreafar norfinf a